About

Independent consultant to the fall protection and confined space entry industry

Name: John T Smit.
Trading Name: JTS Height Safety Risk Management & Control.
Company Type: Sole Proprietorship.
Business Premises: Cape Town, South Africa, 7945.

Postal Address: PO Box 43793, Fish Hoek, Cape Town, 7974.
Contact Name: John Smit.
Contact Emails: jts@jtsrms.com.
Contact Mobile Number: +27 83 499 8009.
Seasonal Closure Times: 20 December – 10 January (however, always available for emergencies).

Type of Business: Professional Consultancy.
Citizenship: South African.
Area of Business: International.
Benchmark: International best practices.

Services Provided

As Height Safety Risk Specialist & Controls Engineer:

  • Incident investigations, root cause analysis and corrective measures.
  • Emergency corrective measures.
  • Legal services.
  • Height safety compliance gap analysis.
  • Issue based risk assessments.
  • Design & engineering of controls and establishment of specifications.
  • Harmonising of engineering controls and safe working procedures.
  • Fall protection plans.
  • Training courses (design and facilitation).
  • Training (management of fall protection).
  • Quantity surveys & cost estimations.
  • Sourcing and procurement services.
  • Project management: Implementation of controls.
  • Compliance for Working at Heights and Confined Space Entry: Mines, Vehicles, Offshore Vessels, Industrial and Manufacturing Plants, etc.
  • Compliance audits.

SHEQ Legislation

  • South African Occupational Health & Safety Act: 1993.
  • General Safety Regulations: 1996.
  • Construction Regulations: 2014.
  • Maritime Occupational Safety Regulations: 1994
  • Mine Health & Safety Act: 1996.
  • British Health & Safety at Work Act: 1974 and Regulations.
  • Safe Work Australia.
  • US Occupational Safety & Health Administration.

Standards

  • South African National Standards (SANS).
  • European Norms (EN).
  • American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
  • Standards Australia (AS).
  • National Building Regulations (SANS10400A).

Qualifications / Training

  • Fall Protection Planner US229994.
  • OHS Act: Legal Liability.
  • NEBOSH International Diploma.
  • NOSA Multiple Integrated Risk Assessment and Control Level Evaluation System.
  • Fall protection, rope access, post fall arrest rescue training courses (UK, France, Germany and South Africa).
  • Business Management (Damelin).
  • GSK and Electrical Operator & Maintainer (South African Navy Submarines).

Experience

Active for >25 years.

Successful projects completed

  1. Design of Risk Assessment and Fall Protection Plan (RA & FPP).
  2. Successful delivery of RA and FPP:
    1. ESKOM Enterprises Capital Expansion Project (Medupi; Kusile; Ingula; Gas Turbine; Pylon Erection; Back to Service Coal Fired PS; Line Stringing; etc.
    2. ESKOM Koeberg Power Station.
    3. Sasol Synfuels and Technology.
    4. Transnet Rail Engineering.
    5. Anglo American.
    6. De Beers Marine.
    7. ArcelorMittal.
    8. Vedanta: Black Mountain Mining (underground operations, plant and civils).
    9. City Council Cape Town Electricity Department (Generation).
    10. Coca-Cola SABCO (as required by Coca-Cola director of OSH) and Peninsula Beverages.
    11. PetroSA (offshore operations and GTL Refinery).
  3. Design of fall arrest and post fall rescue systems and training material for ESKOM Distribution.
  4. Invention and production of Low Height Fall Arrest-Restraint System™.
  5. Invention and production of Tanker Fall Arrest-Evacuation System.
  6. Invention and production of SpanLine™ Tanker Fall Arrest-Restraint System.
  7. Invention and production of the Fragile Roof Access Fall Arrest-Restraint-Evacuation System.
  8. Design of the Fall Protection Compliance Gap Analysis™.
  9. Design of fall protection systems for SA Navy ships and submarines.
  10. Co-designing of tubular, wheeled Guarded Access Platforms (for Transnet, but now used internationally).
  11. Introduction and design of leaning ladder stability and fall arrest systems.
  12. Design and engineering best practice controls and safe working procedures for the removal and replacement of fragile roof sheeting.
  13. Design risk/task specific height safety training course for PetroSA GTL Refinery, FA Platform and Civil works and train trainers to continue with internal training.
  14. Design of steep slope roof restraint and haulage equipment for installing heavy equipment on roofs.